Reduced specificity of autobiographical memories following a negative mood induction

Reduced autobiographical memory specificity (AMS) to emotional and neutral cue words appears to be a stable cognitive marker of clinical depression. For example, reduced AMS is present in remitted/recovered depressed patients and shows no reliable relationship with current levels of depressed mood i...

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Published in:Behaviour research and therapy 2006-10, Vol.44 (10), p.1481-1490
Main Authors: Au Yeung, Cecilia, Dalgleish, Tim, Golden, Ann-Marie, Schartau, Patricia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Affect
AMT
Autobiographical memory
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Cues
Depression
Depression - psychology
Emotional states
Emotions
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Memory
Mental depression
Mental Recall
Mood disorders
Mood induction
Moods
Negativity effect
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Studies
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Summary:Reduced autobiographical memory specificity (AMS) to emotional and neutral cue words appears to be a stable cognitive marker of clinical depression. For example, reduced AMS is present in remitted/recovered depressed patients and shows no reliable relationship with current levels of depressed mood in correlational studies. The present study examined whether reduced AMS could be induced in healthy volunteers with no history of depression, using a negative mood manipulation and whether levels of AMS and induced mood were positively correlated. Results showed a reduction in AMS following negative mood induction, compared to a neutral induction, whereas positive mood induction had no effects on AMS. Furthermore, lower happiness following the induction phase correlated positively with reduced AMS, and the extent of happiness reduction from pre- to post-induction correlated positively with reduction in AMS. These results suggest that AMS is, at least in part, a function of current emotion state. The implications for the literature on AMS as a stable marker of clinical depression are discussed.
ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2005.10.011